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For a long time, I have been ignoring our blog. About the time of my last post, I deleted many photos from the site by accident. Instead of trying to sift through photos and reorder and add from my many, many folders on many, many hard drives I just thought I would let the site go and allow it to fade into the oblivion of … Continue reading A New Start
Oh hey 2018. Fancy seeing you here! Happy Chinese New Year or, Chun Jie Kuai Le! We have been almost five months here in Wuxi. Seven months of being a stay at home mom. Nick has had nearly a 1.5 months of vacation time already. Guys, its been a special year… we had snow, in China, in Jiangsu, in Wuxi! What a miracle. It has … Continue reading That One Time You Cut Off Your Finger.
Today is November 8th. This day four short years ago, Nicholas and I got married!! I thought I would celebrate my love with a list of reasons why he is the best. He writes me love notes. He knows who I am. Deeply. He understands all my “tells”. He reads to me. He is a fantastic daddy. He is adventurous. He remembers important things. He … Continue reading 4 Years
Last weekend, Nicholas went away to a youth trip in Tianjin. Although totally apprehensive that he was leaving us all alone, I had my big girl pants on and told myself I could do it. Single moms do it all the time right? So the first day was Friday, and I felt like it was a completely normal day. Just like Nicholas always does, he … Continue reading Attachment Parenting
Who would have imagined that one day, I would have a baby and be moving overseas. Okay, well, I imagined it. And then it happened. We have been in China for exactly 2 weeks with Baby E. It is incredible how time moves so quickly! In some ways it feels like we never left… but I’m getting ahead of myself. I want to tell you … Continue reading 24 Hours and Then Some
If you are closely following our lives, which I am sure you are not, you know that we are in limbo. We are waiting for Nicholas’ new school to get his work permit from the Chinese government. We are quite anxious that it will happen this week because we would really like to move already. Most of our belongings are packed into a few suitcases. … Continue reading Absurdity
By now, most of you readers know that that Nicholas and I are moving with a baby all the way to China. Nicholas will be teaching AP Literature at an international school in Wuxi, Jiangsu, PRC. This is not that far away from where we were living before. We are so ecstatic to be returning to China this year. When we left for Vietnam, we … Continue reading Fam Bam, Thank You Ma’am.
Evelyn is the youngest Fisher or Denenberg to get her passport in the history of both families. What a claim to fame! We were talking with GG June on FaceTime this past week and she was so happy to notice that Evelyn was going to be doing so much in her lifetime if she was already traveling overseas. We have gotten a lot of questions … Continue reading Baby Passports
I’ve been thinking a lot about pregnancy… and birth. Go figure. I think we’ve been programed as a society to fear labor, to fear our bodies during and after pregnancy. We’ve been taught that we must minimize stretch marks and gain as little weight as possible. We must fit back in our pre-pregnant size 6 (or larger, or smaller) pants by 6 weeks or feel … Continue reading Earning Tiger Stripes
Nicholas and I had a blast taking the motorcycle out into the country side. We were truly blessed to see what life outside of the big city looks like. We stopped a few times on this trip out to the high school we taught summer school at. On this trip you will see a traditional Vietnamese cemetery, a Catholic church and also some of the … Continue reading Vietnamese Road Trip #1
The Denenbergs 